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Brian Portwood, licensed professional land surveyor, federal employee, historian of land rights law
This article is part of a series on the wide variety of issues associated with boundary and easement disputes which arise in the federal context, emphasizing the importance of understanding federal land rights, from the perspective of a professional land surveyor. This edition takes us on a veritable tour of the country, reviewing a variety of historically significant cases from several different states, pertaining to the topic of navigability. Our featured case comes to us from Alaska and leads us into a discussion of the development of the navigability concept over the course of our nation's history.
The Federal Land Rights Series Edition 13 — Will Yukon Charley ride again? — Examining the significance and the legal implications of the navigability concept beyond its role in the establishment of boundaries of fee title.
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International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15D has been utilizing the NSPS CST program for the last 3 years. They are currently offering courses twice a year for the NSPS CST-1 and CST-2 at their training facility in Ozone Park, NY. Local 15D has approximately 1,200 members in its Local.
Due to the rise in technology in surveying as well as the lack of traditional surveying knowledge and skills with its younger members, there was a need for the Union to find a program that will help assist in the training of our members.
The CST Board has been instrumental in helping Local 15D design study materials and courses outlined to assist our instructors as well as our members. Local 15D trains their members in-house and is continually looking for new ways to enhance their surveying program with real world skills as well as classroom study.
The CST program was the perfect fit for the union because of its mix of online training, in-house study and nationally recognized testing/certifications. This 8-week course was designed with the help of the CST Board specifically for our Local, and that personalization has been vital to the success of the program and members. IUOE Local 15D looks forward to working with the CST program in the future.
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Surveyors Historical Society has teamed up with Ralph Gipson (many of you will remember Ralph from the Bilby tower project), the local chapter of the Louisiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors, and other prominent local surveyors and historians to put on a "Rendezvous to Remember."
The event will be held September 12-15, 2018. The conference hotel is the Astor Crowne Plaza, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA.
Click here for more details
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Ambrose Gmeiner, PLS, President of New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors
How did you start your surveying legacy? Each one of us has had an event that took place that steered you to fall in love with surveying. What was that for you? What course changed your life? My story started as an engineering technician for a civil engineering firm. As a young man, I always enjoyed math and history, so I wanted to do something in the engineering field. I just wasn't sure which discipline in engineering. After a week-long stint of pulling cross-sections by hand and plotting on those large gridded sheets, I was asked to assist the survey crew. My crew chief handed me a plumb bob and told me to hold that plumb over the point. What? — I soon learned the methods of the field crew, as the rear chainman. The crisp morning air, the instruments, the meticulous angle and distance measurements, the records, and the property markers. I was hooked.
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Carl CdeBaca, NSPS Director/Nevada
This is a hypothetical situation — I want to make that perfectly clear. Any resemblance to actual people, places or projects is purely coincidental. I don't need a lawsuit, disciplinary action or to retain an attorney for simply projecting current trends into the near future. I am hoping that this little thought exercise will open some eyes, that's all.
The time: 2020. The place: Reno, Nevada. A routine cease-and-desist letter prepared by a licensing board kicks off a lawsuit, affirms a recent Supreme Court decision and ends professional land surveying as we know it.
The facts are these:
Chet, a longtime hobbyist control-line and remote control model airplane pilot purchases his latest toy, a DJI Mavic Air drone which comes complete with onboard GPS and Glonass and a gimbal-mounted 12 megapixel camera. In the process of mastering his new toy, Chet starts dabbling in aerial photography too. While doing some research on-line he discovers that shareware is available which would allow him to produce surface topography and ortho-rectified imagery easily. Chet is an assayer by trade and has an above average intellect. He finds that using the free mapping software is no challenge and soon he is making contours maps, 3-D viewsheds and color orthophotos. He spends another thousand bucks and buys a large format plotter and starts making poster-sized aerial maps for his friends.
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Bart Crattie joins host Curt Sumner to discuss a long standing, and recently reignited, dispute between the states of Georgia and Tennessee regarding their common boundary line which was designated to align with the 35th parallel.
To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
John "JB" Byrd, NSPS Registered Lobbyist
The voice of the surveying profession was heard loud and clear in Congress last week as NSPS members visited with members of their Congressional delegations as part of the NSPS Day on the Hill. More than 40 NSPS members from 30 states visited more than 150 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to discuss three issues (Geospatial Data Act, Infrastructure, and Private Sector Utilization). Pictured here is the NSPS Oregon Delegation visiting with Rep. Greg Walden (OR), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, who had just concluded his daylong hearing of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The Oregon Delegation with Rep. Walden
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit www.nsps.us.com for details.
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Did you know that CST Program participation is required by some DOT contracts across the U.S.?
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The House Committee on Agriculture will meet to mark up the "Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018," H.R. 2. NSPS government affairs consultants, John M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc., has prepared a briefing memo highlighting sections of the bill which will create a need and demand for surveying, mapping and geospatial data. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office recently published a cost estimate for the bill.
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Last week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) introduced the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 4), a five-year bill to reauthorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, provide long-term stability for the Nation’s aviation community, continue investment in U.S. airports, and make necessary reforms to improve American competitiveness and safety in aviation. Sections 331-341 of the bill cover safety and implementation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the domestic airspace.
Inside GNSS
The federal government is rumored to be nearing a decision about Ligado Networks' request to repurpose its satellite frequencies to also support a ground-based telecom network. Those frequencies neighbor the band used by GPS. Testing done both several years ago and more recently has shown such a system could seriously interfere with GPS receivers.
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To prepare you for the this blog post, I wish to point out that I am a geospatial expert and can hold my own around the ins and outs of survey, so going to an event at the Ordnance Survey on "3D mapping for the improvement of GNSS in urban areas" was an eye-opener. You see, I went to the event as it was related to my area of expertise, 3D mapping, but came out seeing how we need more accurate information and better 3D data.
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GPS World
The miniature UAV, smaller than a human palm, zips right to its human target — identified through facial recognition technology — and pierces the forehead with a projectile, for an instant kill.
That harrowing scene takes place in a seven-minute viral video issued by autonomousweapons.org, a non-profit sounding warning bells over potential automation of weapons.
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Point of Beginning
For surveyors, the "unexpected" in the field is not usually welcome. Surprises lead to challenges to resolve, time delays and, often, increased costs.
But occasionally, there are pleasant surprises. Like when Even Sellevoll, a survey engineer with Norwegian company, Geomatikk Survey, set up his integrated total station and scanner instrument to survey a power line, and it revealed a capability he wasn't aware it had.
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Directions Magazine
Citizen science digital applications that involve maps and mapping are at an all-time high. The expectations of Web 2.0 are fully established, and we are very familiar with the process of contributing data online. Using our smart phones to measure our location on the earth's surface has enabled automatic geotagging of the photos we take, and sharing of our location and any other information we choose to provide.
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